Ān wer hangþ of cwicum trēowe, nā bewunden on wīte, ac on āhafenesse þe tācnaþ ǣgþer forlǣtennesse and onwrigenesse. Ofer his hēafde is lēohtbēag, stil beorhtnes þe ne blǣseþ, ac beateþ līþe, swā hēo gehȳre tō þǣre swīge under ealdum grāfum. Sēo woruld is ymbhwyrfed, eorþe þǣr heofon scolde bēon, wyrttruman for bōgum. On þissere stilnesse ne bifiaþ þæs trēowes bōgas, ac hīe healdaþ heora dēagolnesse stille, and lēas wind færþ, nā tō hrēman hweorfunge, ac tō mearcienne þā anbīdunge.
Geo mihte swilc bōg weaxan on beorgum Tessalie, þǣr men þryccedon wæstm tō ele, blāc and biter, and hēoldon hine on lāmfatum. Þā grāfas stōdon betweox þām wildan lande and þǣre sǣ, and heora lēaf gaderedon þæt þurhwunigende dūst drȳges wederes. Man cwiþ þæt Aþēnan giefu þǣre byrig wǣre þæt trēow self, ūp āsprungen of stāne on costnunge, behāt ǣgþer sibbe and fōdan. Þæt wudu wearþ honda þæs erendes racan, þæs wringes steng, and þæs cēapmannes metestæf. Se wæstm, gehǣled and on sealte gelegd, læg on trēowbredum under stillum hrōfum, oþþe wæs tō grūtte grundon for þām sēocum. Swā þæt trēow ǣlce gēar anbīdeþ, lēaf and wæstm bēgen hangende on swīge ǣr rīpunge, swā anbīdeþ ēac Se Hangenda, and lǣt þā worulde gān hire weg, þā hwīle þe hē anbīdeþ þæt nīwe andgiet setlige.
Þæs trēowes sceadu is nytwyrþu bletsung, and sēo woruld under his bōgum þyncþ yldra, swā sēo tīd slāwe on middæges hǣte. Under þām bōgum sind stānas āhēapode tō mearcienne gemǣru betweox orcerdum, mid mēose bewrigene and unāhrērede. Hēr mæg cēapmann restan, his sēam be him, and gehīeran feorr cīg þā cēapmenn on þǣre cēapstōwe. Hēr mæg cild wendan gefeallenne telgan, and dragan þā grēfan and cnottan mid īdlum fingre, and geþencan þā spell þe þæt trēow mihte secgan. On ǣrmorgene gaderaþ dēaw on þām lēafum, and se lyft is gefylled mid lēasum stence sealtes and eorþan, gemynd þǣre langran geþylde þe man þearf tō bringanne rīp.
On spellum wæs se bōg tācn sibbe, boren fram rynemannum ofer drȳgum feldum tō tācnienne rest on wælnīþe. Hē ætīewde on ealdum sagum swā tācn þæt færeld wæs geendod, oþþe þæt sum man cōm sēcende wīsdōm, gearu tō anbīdenne on þǣre sceade oþþæt þæt andswaru hine ætīewde. Gȳt tōdæg sind stōwa þǣr man snīdeþ þæt wudu tō lȳtlum bēagum, and tīehþ hīe on hāmdurum, tō werienne ungesǣlþe. Man þrycceþ hit mid handa tō lȳtlum cicelum, and lecgaþ hīe on þone bēod for cuman swā tācn cumlīþnesse, oþþe grint hit tō grūtte for morgenhlāf, and his smæcc is scearp and wunigende. Þæs trēowes slāwe weaxþ is gesewen on stilnesse þæs Hangendan, þe findþ gesihþe on þǣre anbīdunge, nā on þām campdōme.
Þǣr sind stille dǣda þe tīehþ of þissum spelle. Nim heardne hlāf and gnīd hine mid næglum and āþryccedum wæstme, and et on swīge under openum ēagþyrle. Stond on sunnan dǣle and gehīer þone wind on þām lēafum ufan, and læt þīne geþōhtas cuman and gān būtan dōme. Lecge ānne bōg ofer þīn weorcbord tō gemynde tō anbīdenne ǣr þū þæs dæges weorc onginnst. Heald ānne cyrnel on þīnre handflore, and fel his hefignes, ǣr þū hine on eorþan plantast, lȳtel geleafa þæt hwæt gehȳded sceal ānne dæg rīsan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Elegrēne.
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